One of the ESXi 4.1 servers in my care ran out of disk space today. That issue was resolved. One of the causes is some old snapshots that are taking up 70G(files 000002,000003,000006). I don't see that they are being used. It looks like the virtual machine was deleted and readded using the same VMDK; becuase it is using 2 different directories. I don't think that is part of the problem. The UI doesn't show any snapshots.
I tried clearing out any invisible snapshots by taking a snapshot and deleting all in the UI. The snapshots were still there. When it creates a snapshot it uses files 000001 and 000004. The old snapshots have not been touched in at least 4-5 months looking at the dates. I tried to delete them in the UI, but it came back with an error.
I looked at the vmx file. It references 000006 as scsi0:1 drive, but it is not enabled. SCSI0:0 is the only drive. I thought that if I cleared out the 000006 in the vmx file I might be able to delete it. So I created a scsi0:1 drive, then deleted it. 000006 is not referenced in the file any more, but it didn't help.
I looked at the most recent vmware.log, I don't see reference to files, 2,3,6.
How can I make sure these are not being used? And How can I get rid of these files?
This particular server only has local storage, so vmotion is not an option.
I've attached the log and vmx files.
Thanks,
Wayne